I think my brain is frozen. The awful weatherpeople said it would warm up on Sunday, then on Monday and now they're saying it should be up to the freezing mark on Friday.... I think we're going into another ice age and someday they'll dig me up and show me off as a prime example of homo(sorta)sapiens!

So I thought I'd just help make you all feel better about your awful summer temperatures by reminding you how we pay for our lovely summer weather - with frigid, bone-chilling, nastiness until well into what you might laughingly call spring. And since I did it in a new thread, it has the added bonus of keeping our whole board active (and easily findable on the Greenspun bboard page).

I'll keep up whining until robins show up in my front yard, too. You don't have to read it if you don't want to know :-)

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telsupalnet.net), March 11, 2003

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And now for something completely different...

At least the Alberta curling team won the national championship last weekend. In straight sets with no losses, yet! And our University hockey (?) team won their national championship, too. It may be cold, but some of us are winners, not whiners :-)

-- tc (j@t.n), March 11, 2003.

Hi Tricia. Maybe it's that awful weather that makes the hockey and curling players so tough up there. Good on them. I can't send you any sunshine, so here's something to make you smile instead. (I hope).

He said - Shall we try swapping positions tonight?

She said - That's a good idea........you stand by the ironing board while I sit on the sofa and fart.

-- Carol (c@oz.com), March 12, 2003.

LOL Carol! That was a goooood one.

Now Tricia, I've always wondered what that there curling iron that Dear Mrs. Michaels has in the attic was for. Guess in her youth she used to play curling! Thanks for solving the mystery...

but it makes me really wonder about some of the other things up there ;-)

-- (sonofdust@curling.iron), March 12, 2003.

Tricia, there is really only one criteria for an area ... do you have ticks and chiggers up there?

-- helen (packing@boxes.ditching.bugspray), March 12, 2003.

Now I know you're pulling my leg.

How can you ever pretend to tell us that a curling team won in straight sets? (What's next? Did the fans do the wave too?)

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (cook.r@slidingcurly.friesdownbar), March 12, 2003.

LOL! At Carol and Rob :-D

No, Helen, we do not have ticks or chiggers. It is much too cold for them to survive here. Hmmm, no chiggers for sure, but there are a (very) few ticks. I personally had never seen one until we went to Africa, although there was a slough in a wood just a block from our house where I loved to spend as much of my summer as I could. Deep frost is hard on most insects. Mosquitos are fine with it :-(

Robert, not only did the curling team win in straight sets, they did with English on their rocks :-) And the skip slides instead of skipping, too ;-)

-- (jayles@telusplanet.net), March 13, 2003.

yes well here in Atlanta. Today's high was 78. Tomorrow, there is supposed to be a cold snap: the high will only be 61 degree's. Brrrrrr! I shiver just thinking about it.

-- Jean Cook (jean@home.com(puter)), March 14, 2003.

So the curling team one in straight sets, eh?

(Bet it was a clean sweep....)

Was there broom for improvement in their scores?

Next you'll tell us they mopped up the competition, and were flushed with pride in their victory as they polished their trophy.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (cook.r@pullingherstring.long), March 15, 2003.

(giggle)

I like your clean sweep better than my straight sets! Punny goodness :-D

-- Tricia the Canuck (jayles@telusplanet.net), March 15, 2003.